Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.

...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. If being were only what it is, there wouldn’t even be room to talk about it. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack.

The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning.

Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.

All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.